Lacing-stud.



No. 833,514. PATBNTBD OCT. 16, 1906. S. L. DIVEN.

LAGING STUD.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15. 1906.

wi/tmeooeo l l N I i PATENT oFFIon:

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 16, 1906.

Application filed January 15,1906. Serial No. 296,192.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL L. DIVEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Lacing-Stud, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, while relating more particularly to lacing-studs for shoes, is not llmited thereto, but is clearly applicable to gloves and various other articles with which laces are em loyed.

ne of the principal objects is to provide a simple and novel device of the above character that will permit the ready introduction and removal of a lace and when the lace is in place therein will have no portion that Will engage or catch upon fabric and the like.

A further object is to provide a retaining device or closure for the usual lace-receiving slot that is moved to o erative position by the introduction of the ace into the stud, is held in operative position by said lace, and is freed or moved to inoperative position upon the removal of the lace from the stud.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein' Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stud constructed-in accordance with the resent invention, the same being illustrated on an enlarged scale. Fig. 2 is avertical sectional view therethrough. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the relation of the parts when the lace is in place. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the stud.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In the embodiment illustrated a substantially s herical head 5 is employed, which is preferably, though not necessarily, substantially solid. Tl11S head is provided with a stud 6, which is hollow, in order that it may be readily upset for the pur ose of fastening the device to an article. The head 5 is provided with a substantiall vertical slot 7. The transverse lace-receiving slot 8, that intersects the slot 7, is disposed at an inclination, the slot 8 being provided with an outer open end, forming a mouth.

A retaining device in the form of a disk 9 is located in the vertical slot 7 and is pivoted to the head 5, a suitable pivot-pin 10 passing therethrough and through the disk. This pin, which is clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3,

is dis osed in line with and in rear of the slot 8. he disk 9 is also provided with a lace-receiving slot 11, which slot is preferably of comparatively great width and is provided with an ofiset inlet-mouth 12. The slot 1 1 is preferably disposed tangentially to the pivot 10, and the shape thereof forms an outer overhanging and depending bill 13, that is movable across the outer end or mouth of the head-slot 8 and constitutes a keeper ele ment. Because of the peculiar arrangement it will thus be seen that when the mouth 12 of the retaining-disk registers with the mouth of the slot 8 the slot 11 is out of register with said slot 8, as shown in Fig. 2. On the other hand, when the mouths are out of register, as shown in Fig. 3, then the slots are in register. Because of this arrangement the lower wall 14 of the slot 11 is movable across the slot 8 and constitutes a bearing element or wall for the lace, the wall 14 and the bill 13 alternately moving across the slot 8 as the disk is swung in o posite directions. The movement of the sai disk is limited in one direction by a shoulder 15, that abuts against a shoulder 16, formed on the rear portion of the head, and its movement in the o posite direction is limited by the end of t e ill 13 abutting against the lower wall of the slot 8, as illustrated in Fig. 3. By having the slot 11 enlarged it will be noted that the portion ofthe disk 9 on the o posite side of the pivot will be'heavier an will overbalance the front portion, thus normally holding the arts in the position shown in Fig. 2. Thereore it will be ap arent that if a lace is introduced into the s 0t 8 it will strike the outer beveled portion of the lower wall 14 and sliding along said lower wall bring the slots 11 into register with the slots 8. The resultant movement will therefore cause the tongue 13 to be projected across the outer end of the slot 8, thereby closing said slot against ingress of any fabric or portion of an article of clothing, so that there is no danger of the same becoming can ht and torn thereby. The introduction of t e lace therefore causes the automatic closing of the slot and holds the bill across the same. As soon, however, as the lace is moved outwardly the bill will automatically raise and permit the detachment of the lace, the parts reassuming their normal position, as shown in Fig. 2, in which they will be held by the overbalancing arrangement of the disk, as already described. It Will thus be seen that an exceedingly simple device is provided, which may be employed in a variety of Ways and which will not catch or injure anything as long as a lace is in place therein.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, operation, and many advantages of the herein-described invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the s irit or sacrificing any of the advantages of t 1e invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a stud of the character described, the combination with a head having a slot provided with an open mouth, of a retaining device movably associated with the head and having a slot provided with an open mouth, the slot of the retaining device registering with the slot of the head when the respective mouths are out of register, said mouths registerin with each other when the slots are disposed out of substantial register.

2. In a stud of the character described, the combination with a head having a slot provided with an open mouth, of a retaining device movably associated with the head and having a slot provided with an offset open mouth movable into and out of register with the mouth of the head-slot, the slot of the retaining device registering with the slot of the head when the res ective months are out of register, and one of the walls of the retainingslot being in the head-slot when the mouths are in register.

3. In a stud of the character described, the combination with a head, of a retaining device ivotally mounted on the head, said head raving a slot extending radially into the same from one side and toward the pivot-axis of the retaining device, said retaining device also having a slot extending into the same from one side, the bottom of said slot being in a line that passes above the pivot-axis.

4. In a stud of the character described, the combination with a head having a lace-receiving slot, of a retaining device pivotally mounted therein and having a lace-receiving slot that is movable into register with the slot of the head, said retaining device having an overhanging bill that is movable across the outer end of the head-slot, and furthermore having a slot-wall borne against by the lace when introduced into the head-slot to retain the bill across said head-slot, said retaining device being overbalanced to normally maintain the bill out of the head-slot and the bearing-wall in said head-slot.

5. In a stud of the character described, the combination with a head having a lace-receiving slot, of a retaining device pivotally mounted within the head and having a slot, said device having a keeper and bearing elements on opposite sides of the slot, which elements alternately move into the head-slot from opposite sides thereof upon the opposite movements of the retaining device.

6. In a stud of the character described, the combination with a head having a lace-receiving slot, of a retaining device pivotally mounted within the head and having a wall, said device having keeper and bearing elements on opposite sides of the slot, which elements alternately move into the head-slot from opposite sides thereof upon the opposite movements of the retaining device, and means for limiting the pivotal movement of the retaining device.

7. In a stud of the character described, the combination with a head having a stud, a slot extending therein in one direction, and an inclined slot disposed transversely of the first-mentioned slot, of a retaining-disk located in the first-mentioned slot and pivoted to the head, said disk having a slot that is movable into and out of register with the inclined slot of the head, and an overhanging retaining-bill arranged at the outer end of the disk slot and movable across the outer portion of the inclined head-slot when the two slots are in register, one of the walls of said disk slot being movable into the inclined head-slot when the retaining-bill moves out of the same.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL L. DIVEN. Witnesses A. M. CLARK, J. C. EoKELs. 

